California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 8.5 - Environmental License Plates

• Section 5100.
  The purpose of this article is to provide revenue for the California Environmental License Plate Fund.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1105.)
• Section 5101.
  Any person who is the registered owner or lessee of a passenger vehicle, commercial motor vehicle, motorcycle, trailer, or semitrailer registered or certificated with the...
• Section 5101.2.
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a firefighter, retired firefighter, or a surviving family member of a firefighter or retired firefighter may...
• Section 5101.3.
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who qualifies under subdivision (b) may apply for special license plates that shall run in a separate numerical...
• Section 5101.4.
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who is a recipient of the Army Medal of Honor, Navy Medal of Honor, Air Force Medal of...
• Section 5101.5.
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a former American prisoner of war may apply for special license plates for the vehicle under...
• Section 5101.6.
  (a) A person otherwise eligible under this article who is a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient may apply for special license plates for the vehicle under...
• Section 5101.8.
  (a) Any person otherwise eligible under this article who is a Purple Heart recipient may apply for special license plates for vehicles that are not used...
• Section 5101.9.
  (a) Until December 31, 1991, any person described in Section 5101 may apply for a set of commemorative Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights reflectorized license...
• Section 5102.
  The environmental license plates shall be the same color and design as regular passenger vehicle, commercial vehicle, motorcycle, or trailer license plates, and shall consist...
• Section 5103.
  “Environmental license plates,” as used in this article, means license plates or permanent trailer identification plates that have displayed upon them the registration number assigned...
• Section 5104.
  Environmental license plates shall be issued only to the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle on which they are to be displayed.(Amended by Stats....
• Section 5105.
  (a) An applicant for issuance of environmental license plates or renewal of such plates in the subsequent year pursuant to this article shall file an application...
• Section 5106.
  (a) In addition to the regular registration fee or a permanent trailer identification fee, the applicant shall be charged a fee of forty-eight dollars ($48) for...
• Section 5106.a.
  (a) In addition to the regular registration fee or a permanent trailer identification fee, the applicant shall be charged a fee of fifty-three dollars ($53) for...
• Section 5107.
  (a) All revenue derived from the fees provided for in this article shall be deposited in the California Environmental License Plate Fund.(b) Not more than fifty cents...
• Section 5108.
  (a) Whenever any person who has been issued environmental license plates applies to the department for transfer of the plates to another passenger vehicle, commercial motor...
• Section 5109.
  When any person who has been issued environmental license plates sells, trades, or otherwise releases ownership of the vehicle upon which the environmental license plates...
• Section 5110.
  (a) The director may adopt rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this article. (b) Whenever two or more separate series of special...
• Section 5112.
  (a) The department shall revise its Internet Web site to provide a direct link on the homepage to information on ordering environmental license plates.(b) The department may...

Last modified: October 22, 2018